Module 6 Test
The Progressive Spirit of Reform
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Highlight the correct response(s):
1. Which of the following tactics did bosses and political machines use to gain control of local
governments? Choose the three correct answers.
A. hiring repeaters
B. using secret ballots
C. stuffing ballot boxes
D. using a merit system
E. trading favors for votes
F. writing articles to gain attention
2. What was the major goal of Progressive reformers?
A. to write articles that exposed troubling issues
B. to create changes that would help the urban poor
C. to push for changes in the government job system
D. to end the corrupt methods used by political machines
3. Match the name of each voting reform to the description of that reform measure. One term
will not be used.
____A____ allowed voters to
propose a new law by collecting
signatures on a petition
A. initiative
____E____ allowed voters to
approve or reject a law that had
already been proposed or passed
B. recall
___B_____ allowed voters to
remove an official before the end of
his or her term
C. direct primary
____C____ allowed voters to
choose candidates to run for public
office
D. Seventeenth Amendment
E. referendum
4. Which of the following is an example of a legal success that reformers had in improving the
conditions for child laborers?
A. the passage of laws that completely eliminated child labor
B. the creation of a committee that established rates for child workers
C. the upholding of the federal child labor laws by the Supreme Court
D. the passage of laws that punished parents for ignoring child labor laws
5. Which of the following are successes that labor unions and reformers had in improving
working conditions? Choose the three correct answers.
A. higher wages
B. longer workweeks
C. a twelve-hour workday
D. laws ending child labor
E. workers’ compensation laws
F. laws restricting women’s working hours
6. Place an “X” in the table to show whether each characteristic describes the American
Federation of Labor (AFL), the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), or the
International Workers of the World (IWW).
American
Federation of
Labor (AFL)
International
Ladies’ Garment
Workers’ Union
(ILGWU)
believed in the
system of
socialism
X
organized the
“Uprising of the
20,000”
X
included only
skilled workers
X
led by Samuel
Gompers
X
led by William
“Big Bill”
Haywood
International
Workers of the
World (IWW)
X
7. How did women’s involvement in the Progressive movement lead to constitutional change?
A. Women reformers fought for the right to vote, which led to the passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment.
B. Many women took up the cause of temperance, which led to the passage of the Seventeenth
Amendment.
C. Women reformers campaigned for senators to be directly chosen, which led to the passage
of the Sixteenth Amendment.
D. Many women pushed for the government to impose direct income taxes, which led to the
passage of the Eighteenth Amendment.
8. Match the name of each African American leader to the description of that person.
___B_____ believed that
African Americans should not
openly challenge segregation
A. W. E. B. DuBois
____D____ wrote articles
about the unequal education
for African American children
B. Booker T. Washington
_____C___ formed the
National Urban League to aid
African Americans moving
from the South
C. Dr. George Edmund Haynes
___A_____ helped found the D. Ida B. Wells
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People (NCAAP)
9. Which of the following correctly shows a limitation of Progressive reforms?
A. The temperance movement largely failed to meet its goals.
B. Women were not granted the right to vote in federal elections.
C. African Americans were unsuccessful in using the courts to fight discrimination.
D. New labor laws did not improve the living and working conditions of migrant workers.
10. Which of the following correctly shows how President Theodore Roosevelt supported
Progressive reforms?
A. He created a new, modern banking system.
B. He convinced Congress to pass a meat inspection law.
C. He viewed the protection of nature and its resources as unimportant.
D. He started an agency to investigate and punish unfair trade practices.
11. How was the administration of William Howard Taft different from that of Theodore
Roosevelt?
A. Taft did not start any antitrust lawsuits.
B. Taft was strongly opposed to socialism.
C. Taft favored the regulation of big business.
D. Taft moved cautiously with reform and regulation.
12. Place an “X” in the table to show whether each achievement is associated with President
Theodore Roosevelt, President William Howard Taft, or President Woodrow Wilson.
Theodore
Roosevelt
William
Howard
Taft
backed the Underwood Tariff Act,
which lowered tariffs
was the first to use the Sherman
Antitrust Act to break up a monopoly
X
X
passed the Clayton Antitrust Act,
which strengthened federal laws
against monopolies
X
signed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, which
reduced some rates on imports but
raised others
X
created the Federal Trade
Commission to investigate and punish
unfair trade practices
convinced Congress to pass the Pure
Food and Drug Act to stop the sale
and transport of mislabeled food and
drugs
Woodrow
Wilson
X
X